Africa must ramp up its surveillance and detection infrastructure in the light of an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Ghana, public health leaders have warned. Last month, Ghana recorded its … [+7816 chars]
MONTREAL, August 24 Infectious disease physician Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman is optimistic of eliminating HIV/AIDS in Malaysia by 2030, perceiving the epidemic as a low-hanging fruit that should be i… [+4068 chars]
Introduction Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women globally. Several recent studies have demonstrated that breast cancer accounts for approximately 25% of the overall new-onset cancers wo… [+17655 chars]
When I dont know how to do something, I’m the type of person to go figure it out. YouTube has taught me skills ranging from fixing a leaky faucet to trail running. My wife and I applied the same meth… [+7522 chars]
Media outlets report on how wild poliovirus is circulating because of a very rare circumstance where the disease can spread from oral vaccines that contain live versions of the disease. Reports detai… [+3396 chars]
Introduction Asthma is a complex disease, caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, leading to heterogeneous phenotypes.1 Extrinsic factors (ie, allergens, viruses, pollutants, d… [+70448 chars]
A new study published in Cell Chemical Biology describes an alternative approach to treat diabetes by identifying drugs directly increasing the number of incretin-expressing cells. The work results f… [+3360 chars]
Newswise — Young people who eat healthy breakfasts at home have better psychosocial health, shows a recent study in Frontiers in Nutrition. While previous research has reported the important role of … [+2941 chars]
A discovery by WA plant biochemists could have big implications for how we use plants for food and store carbon in the future. If you cast your mind back to high school biology, you might remember p… [+4122 chars]
New US figures suggest that as much as 80% of children may have had a coronavirus infection four times more than officially reported. With so many people using at-home Covid-19 tests if theyre testi… [+3273 chars]
Alume Biosciences, Inc. says the first patient has been dosed in a phase 3 pivotal study of ALM-488, a peptide-dye conjugate designed to highlight nerves with fluorescence in real time during surgery… [+2306 chars]
People with sickle cell anemia (SCA) the most common and the most severe form of sickle cell disease (SCD) are more commonly hospitalized in the cooler winter and spring seasons than in the hotter su… [+4348 chars]